branndon_b
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started off with a mysterious water leak on the driver side of my '99 yukon. so, started pulling a little bit of interior trying to figure out where it was coming from. next thing you know, all of my interior is out, and i'm trying to clean the carpet. spent most of the day pressure washing the carpet, soaping, oxy cleaning, spot remover, and after all day of cleaning on it, decided to just order new carpet. so....
ordered some new carpet, got the deluxe pile with the mass backing. fixed my primary water leak, but found 2 more. the rear barn doors were leaking like a sieve, and i had the leak on the passenger side that i didn't know about until all the carpet was out. so i ordered some new door seals (6 pc set, 4 doors + barn door surround + between the doors.
also put in an order to raam audio, got quite a bit of stuff from him. and i know people had said that he was a nice guy, that is right on the money. very very upright businessman, or at least i thought so. so, got the floor all done up with raammat, got raammat bxt and ensolite in the back doors. so far i'm liking it.
instead of getting more ensolite, for the large areas i bought some similar closed cell foam stuff called "gymnastic mat." comes in varying thicknesses from 1/8" to like 2 or 3". put in another order for some spray adhesive from raam audio again, used it to stick down the mat. put a solid layer of the 1/4 inch foam from nose to tail, some places i put 2 layers.
changed out the weatherstripping also, barn doors leak no more! and thanks to some research i did here, found out about the wiper cowl screws leaking water into the cab, so went ahead and fixed that too. but while i had that off, figured it was a great time to repaint the wiper arms and get some new blades.
funny how you can get caught up in the fixing up mode, i've really enjoyed it as much as i've loathed it. it's kinda like when i got a fixer-upper boat, was miserable with rewiring and cleaning and changing stuff, but when it was all done i was almost kinda sad. not sad like crying sad, but just like "what do i do now?"
anyhow, ordered another 2 boxes of raammat bxt II to do my headliner, gonna employ some help of one of my buddies to help me out with that. after all the sound deadening is done i wanna get an alarm put in, and put my 4 12's in. been jonesing for 4 12's for some time now. (alpine type x's) then maybe some rims, 22's or 24's, probably boss 330's or 335's or something similar, black with chrome/polished/machined lip. then maybe roll pan. but blah blah blah... i'm rambling i know.
anyhow, i encourage anyone wanting to tackle a project to grab a wrench and a screwdriver and dive in. there is a lot of gratification in doing something yourself. and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience in forums like this and general searching the net.
anyhow, i'll keep ya posted on the progress, hopefully the carpet/raammat/foam will make it really really quiet until the really really loud comes along, lol. oh yeah, the foam was really really cheap compared to the ensolite, hope it does the same job. but i will use the ensolite in the doors since it's easy to handle.
ordered some new carpet, got the deluxe pile with the mass backing. fixed my primary water leak, but found 2 more. the rear barn doors were leaking like a sieve, and i had the leak on the passenger side that i didn't know about until all the carpet was out. so i ordered some new door seals (6 pc set, 4 doors + barn door surround + between the doors.
also put in an order to raam audio, got quite a bit of stuff from him. and i know people had said that he was a nice guy, that is right on the money. very very upright businessman, or at least i thought so. so, got the floor all done up with raammat, got raammat bxt and ensolite in the back doors. so far i'm liking it.
instead of getting more ensolite, for the large areas i bought some similar closed cell foam stuff called "gymnastic mat." comes in varying thicknesses from 1/8" to like 2 or 3". put in another order for some spray adhesive from raam audio again, used it to stick down the mat. put a solid layer of the 1/4 inch foam from nose to tail, some places i put 2 layers.
changed out the weatherstripping also, barn doors leak no more! and thanks to some research i did here, found out about the wiper cowl screws leaking water into the cab, so went ahead and fixed that too. but while i had that off, figured it was a great time to repaint the wiper arms and get some new blades.
funny how you can get caught up in the fixing up mode, i've really enjoyed it as much as i've loathed it. it's kinda like when i got a fixer-upper boat, was miserable with rewiring and cleaning and changing stuff, but when it was all done i was almost kinda sad. not sad like crying sad, but just like "what do i do now?"
anyhow, ordered another 2 boxes of raammat bxt II to do my headliner, gonna employ some help of one of my buddies to help me out with that. after all the sound deadening is done i wanna get an alarm put in, and put my 4 12's in. been jonesing for 4 12's for some time now. (alpine type x's) then maybe some rims, 22's or 24's, probably boss 330's or 335's or something similar, black with chrome/polished/machined lip. then maybe roll pan. but blah blah blah... i'm rambling i know.
anyhow, i encourage anyone wanting to tackle a project to grab a wrench and a screwdriver and dive in. there is a lot of gratification in doing something yourself. and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience in forums like this and general searching the net.
anyhow, i'll keep ya posted on the progress, hopefully the carpet/raammat/foam will make it really really quiet until the really really loud comes along, lol. oh yeah, the foam was really really cheap compared to the ensolite, hope it does the same job. but i will use the ensolite in the doors since it's easy to handle.
i agree
